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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What to set uart_port->irq to for polled driver?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:32:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362076338.3337.3.camel@thor.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kfgb7a$gl2$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 15:24 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> For a polled serial driver that doesn't use interrupts, to what should
> the "irq" field in the uart_port structure be set?  Should it be 0?
> Should it be the unused IRQ associated with the PCI card slot in which
> the board is found?

Doesn't look supported, but adding the support doesn't look difficult.
At the very least, a patch is required so that on port shutdown, the
core doesn't synchronize_irq().

Regards,
Peter Hurley


  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-28 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-13 15:24 What to set uart_port->irq to for polled driver? Grant Edwards
2013-02-28 18:32 ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2013-02-28 18:43   ` Grant Edwards
2013-02-28 20:16     ` Peter Hurley
2013-02-28 20:42       ` Grant Edwards

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